speciesofleastconcern:

adventures-in-zookeeping:

howtocan:

Baby bird season is incoming and I’d like to remind everyone that birds do not have a significant sense of smell. Bird parents will not reject birdlets because you have handled them.

If you see smol birbs with few or no feathers on the ground, you can safely put them back into their nest, bird parents will still care for them.

If you see smol birbs with some or most feathers on the ground, please leave them there, as bird parents are probably nearby watching and feeding.

We have a poster in the rehab that says “you wouldn’t kick your kids out of home if they smelled funny, so why would birds”
And I think that’s a hilarious addition to this informative post

I don’t have kids so this is untested